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AUTO-NARRATIVE AS MEANS OF PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY FORMATION IN MODERN AMERICAN NEO-PAGANISM
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Asya Alievna Sarakaeva
Astrakhan' State University
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Submitted:
August 4, 2012
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Abstract.
The author considers the auto-narratives of American neo-pagans, analyzes their narrative, psychological and stylistic features, reveals their role in pagans' new cultural-religious identity formation, describes the main narrative model of American neo-pagan personal myths, and determines the reasons, why neo-pagan community members subject their memories to re-interpretation and self-censorship.
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Key words and phrases:
неоязычество
коллективная идентичность
персональная мифология
автонарратив
реструктурирование воспоминаний
neo-paganism
collective identity
personal mythology
auto-narrative
memories restructuring
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